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J. PARMER 8: A. LALANCE.

APPARATUS FOR BLEAOHING AND DYEING. No. 313,306. Patented Mar. 3, 1885.

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J. PARMER & A. LALANOE. APPARATUS FOR BLEAGHING AND DYEING.

N0. 313,306. Patented Mar. 3, 1885.

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APPARATUS FOR BLEAOHING AND DYEING.

Patented Mar. 3, 1885.

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UNTTEE STATES PATENT QEEICE.

JAMES FARMER, OF SALFORD, COUNTY OF LANCASTER, ENGLAND, AND AUGUSTE LALANOE, OF 'MFILHAUSEN, GERMANY.

APPARATUS FOR BLEACHING AND DYEING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,306, dated March 3, 1885 Application filed January 8, 1854. (No model.) Patented in England June 8, 1883, No. 2,871 in France December 7, 1883, No. 159,040,- in Germany December 18, 1883, No. 23,050, and in Spain June 20, 1884, No. 4,047.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JAMES FARMER, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, and residing at Salford, in the county of Lancaster, England, and AUGUSTE LALANOE, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, and residing at Millhausen, Germany, have invented improvements in the construction of apparatus employed for bleaching, washing, chloring, scourro ing, soaping, dunging, and dyeing woven fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention consists of improvements in the construction of apparatus for open bleaching, washing, chloring, scouring, soaping,

dunging, and dyeing woven fabrics made of cotton, linen, and wool, the object of the invention being to so construct the apparatus as to effect the impregnation of the cloth with the liquor as quickly and thoroughly as pos- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1, Sheet 1, is a plan View of our apparatus. Fig. 2, Sheet 2, is a side View of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view, and Fig. 4 is a sectional View of a modification.

The main feature of our machine consistsin the combination, with an open tank, of two cylinders, rollers, or chambers therein, with perforated surfaces, the interiors of these cylinders, rollers, or chambers being in communication through an outside conduit containing a propeller or pump, by which the liquor is forced into one of the cylinders or chambers and out through the perforations into 3 5 the tank and is sucked or exhausted into the other cylinder or chamber through its perforations, thus insuring the thorough impregnation of the fabric in its passage over the perforated cylinders, rollers, or chambers.

In the improved machine, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the cloth (represented by the dotted line and arrows) is supported by hollow metallic cylinders or rollers a a and b b, perforated with holes over their surface the whole width 5 of the cloth and corrugated lengthwise, (see Fig. 1,) so as to allow the liquor to pass freely through the cloth and out of or into the holes on the surface.

Two pairs of perforated cylinders or rollers,

a a and b b, are mounted in a cistern or tank, c c, of iron, wood, or stone, as represented in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the one pair, a a, working by vacuum, and the other pair, b b, by pressure. The oneend of each of these cylinders is open to communicate with a, chamber, d d or d d, the other end ofthe said cylinders being closed. .These chambers are joined together by a trunk or conduit, 0 e, in which are placed revolving screw-propellers ff, the trunk e (2 being shown with the lid removed in Fig. 1; or the circulation of the liquor may be produced by a pump or injector, or by any other mechanical means, forcing the liquor to penetrate the cloth twice and return constantly back again to the cistern or tank 0 c. The perforated cylindersa a and b b are driven by worms 9 g, keyed on the main drivingshafts h h, and gearing with the worm-Wheel 'i i, keyed on the axes of the said cylinders.

The propellers f f are driven by spur-gear- 7o ing k k.

Z Z are tension-bars, and m m are guide-rollers for carrying the cloth round the perforated cylinders ct a and b b.

n a are two perforated pipes for further washing the fabric in case of bleaching.

0 0 are two squeezing-rollers, from which the cloth passes to any ordinary folding or plaiting down apparatus.

Fig. 4 is a vertical section of a modification, showing the adaptation of chambers having perforated plates q q, over which the cloth is drawn instead of the cylinders a a and b b.

The circulation of the liquor is kept up by means of a centrifugal pump, W, or other mechanical means.

We wish it to be understood that we do not confine ourselves tothe rollers or cylinders with perforated and grooved surfaces, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, as we may construct the 0 said rollers, or cylinders, or plates of wireoloth or other open material that will allow the water or liquor to pass through.

We claim as our invention- 1. The combination of a tank with two cyl- 5 inders or chambers therein having perforated surfaces, a conduit forming adirect communication between and opening directly into the interiors of both cylinders or chamberspa'nda -of both pairs of cylinders, and a propeller or propeller or pump in said conduit, substanl pump in said conduit, as and for the purpose tially as described, adapted to force the liquor described.

through the perforations from the inside to In testimony whereof we have signed our 15 5 theoutsideof one cylinder or chambenthrough names to this specification in the presence of the tank, and from the outside to the inside two subscribing witnesses.

of the other; allsubstantially as set forth. JAS. FARMER.

2. The combination of a tank and two pairs AUG. LALANOE. of rotary cylinders therein, closed at one side Vitnesses: IO of the tank and open at the other, with a con- N. HENZI,

duit, cl 6 01, opening directly into the interior (his. A. RICHTER. 

